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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">AMCIS 2013 Call for Papers:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mini-track: Information Systems for Sustainable Business Activities and Supply Chains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Track: SIGGreen
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 15-17, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Minitrack Description<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sustainability has increasingly become important to business research and practice over the past decades as a result of rapid depletion of
natural resources and concerns over wealth disparity and corporate social responsibility. Sustainability research and practices have recognized that business performance should be evaluated based on its impacts on the environment and interested stakeholders
besides profitability, known as the triple bottom line (TBL). Companies have increasingly<i>
</i>recognized that business strategy that boldly embrace sustainability have resulted in companies’ being successful in delivering financial, environmental, and social values to themselves as well as related stakeholders (MIT Sloan Management Review report,
2011).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In order to develop capabilities to address TBL issues, businesses need to engage in wide ranging activities such as changing business culture,
redesigning business processes, etc. (Hart & Milstein, 2003; Porter & Kramer, 2006). More importantly, research as well as management practice have illustrated that to be truly sustainable, companies should not only just focus on their own business operations
but also focus on improving sustainable business practices across the supply chain (Kleindorfer, Singhal, & Van Wassenhove, 2005; Dao, Langella, & Carbo, 2011).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Given the recognized role of IT resources in enabling business capabilities within and across supply chain partners (Rai, Patnayakuni, & Seth,
2006; Jain, Wadhwa, & Deshmukh, 2009), it is arguable that IT resources should be critical in enabling firms to develop capabilities to address sustainability issues both within firms and across their supply chain through coordination with supply chain partners
(Melville, 2010; Dao et al., 2011). We invite research from different business areas, including MIS, management, supply chain and operation management, and particularly inter-disciplinary research that examines the role of IT resources in conjunction with
other business resources in enabling firms to develop sustainability strategy that address all aspects of the triple bottom line, both within firms and across supply chain partners. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IS in enabling sustainable innovation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Intertwining of environmentally and socially sustainable practices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IS in enabling environmentally and socially sustainable operations (including direct environmental impact of data centers, power consumption and conservation,
etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IS in supply chain partners’ coordination for sustainability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sustainability vision within and across firms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The role of IS in enabling the assessment of sustainability performance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">References<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dao, V., Langella, I., & Carbo, J. (2011) From green to sustainability: InformationTechnology and an Integrated Sustainability Framework. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 20(1), 63-79.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hart, S., & Milstein, M. B. (2003). Creating Sustainable Value. Academy of Management Executive, 17, 56-67.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jain, V, Wadhwa, S, & Deshmukh, S. G. (2009). Revisiting information systems to support a dynamic supply chain: issues and prospective. Production Planning & Control, 20, 17-29.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kleindorfer, P.R., Singhal, K., & Van Wassenhove, L.N. (2005). Sustainable Operations Management. Production and Operations Management, 14, 482-492.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Melville, N. (2010) Information Systems Innovation for Environmental Sustainability. MIS Quarterly, 34(1), 1-21.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MIT Sloan Management Review report (2011) Sustainability: The “Embracers” Seize Advantage.
</span><a href="http://sloanreview.mit.edu/feature/sustainability-advantage/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://sloanreview.mit.edu/feature/sustainability-advantage/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Porter, M., & Kramer, M. (2006) Strategy & Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility. Harvard Business Review, 84(12),78-92.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Rai, A., Patnayakuni, R., & Seth, N. (2006). Firm Performance Impacts of Digitally Enabled Supply Chain Integration Capabilities. MIS Quarterly, 30, 225-246.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Important dates:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January, 4, 2013: Submission system starts to accept submissions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">February 22, 2013 Deadline for paper submissions
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">April 22, 2013 Notification of acceptance
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">May 9, 2013 Final copy due<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Co-chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Viet Dao<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:vtdao@ship.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">vtdao@ship.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jerry Carbo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:jacarbo@ship.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">jacarbo@ship.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ian Langella<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:imlangella@ship.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">imlangella@ship.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Steve Haase<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:sjhaas@ship.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">sjhaas@ship.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Viet T. Dao, Ph.D.<br>
Associate Professor of Management Information Systems<br>
Grove College of Business<br>
Shippensburg University<br>
1871 Old Main Drive, GRH315<br>
Shippensburg, PA 17257<br>
Office: (717) 477-1415</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">E-mail:
<a href="mailto:vtdao@ship.edu"><span style="color:blue">vtdao@ship.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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